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A man tried to rob an Uptown bank Saturday afternoon but didn’t make off with any cash, according to authorities.

Katherine Chaumont, spokeswoman for the FBI’s Dallas division, said the man walked into the Wells Fargo bank branch at 2611 Cedar Springs in Dallas about 1 p.m. He showed a handgun and demanded cash, but he fled the scene.

Authorities did not have a photo of the suspect for media release at time of publication, Chaumont said.

Dallas police shot and killed a lawyer from a prominent Dallas firm Thursday after police say he reported a burglary at his Uptown apartment and opened fire on officers.

The incident began about 1:45 a.m. when police were called to the Glass House by Windsor apartment tower after the suspect, 47-year-old Michael Edward Schmidt, told an employee there had been a break-in.

When police arrived, Schmidt barricaded himself in a hallway near the lobby and fired at them, authorities said. Officers tried to negotiate with the gunman, police said, but he continued shooting, and police were forced to return fire, killing him. No officers or other residents were injured, police said.

Schmidt’s youngest child, an 11-year-old daughter, was present in the apartment during the deadly confrontation.

“We are very, very thankful that she is OK,” said Susan McMordie, Schmidt’s mother-in-law. “It could have gone all sorts of ways. You never know about this type of stuff.”

Schmidt is the son of C.L. Mike Schmidt, founder of the Dallas law firm The Schmidt Firm. He’s worked at the firm since graduating from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1992. A representative from the firm declined to comment.

The circumstances surrounding his death have stunned and saddened those who knew Schmidt.

“It’s very shocking in the way that it happened,” McMordie said. “He was such a sweet guy. Even though he and my daughter are divorced, he couldn’t have been nicer to us. He was a very generous person, and he just had some problems along the way.”

Schmidt and his former wife, Wendy, have four children ranging from 11 to 20. The Schmidts grew up in the Park Cities and have been a couple since they were teenagers. They dated in college at Southern Methodist University and were married for more than 20 years before their recent divorce, McMordie said.

“She’s very sad,” McMordie said. “As you can imagine, she’s shocked and trying to take care of the kids.”

At the law firm, Schmidt represented the family of a woman who was run over by a “monster truck” outside a Dallas strip club in 2011. In a unanimous verdict, the jury awarded $10.5 million to the family of 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie, who sued the Spearmint Rhino and the truck driver, Brent Crutchfield.

A 28-year-old woman arrested in connection with a South Dallas stabbing early Friday also faces charges she robbed an Uptown boutique last month, according to police documents.

Lakimbra Marie Wilson, a felon, is being held at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center on felony charges of robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the two cases. Her bail is set at $200,000, according to jail records.

The robbery was reported on May 31 at Demerara, a store in the West Village. In that case, police believe Wilson walked out with two pairs of pants, a blazer and a shirt valued at $1,100, the documents said.

The store owner chased after Wilson, who got in a blue 4-door Audi. The store owner grabbed her merchandise and Wilson allegedly pulled the woman’s hair and punched her in the head repeatedly, police said.

Wilson then fled the scene and the store owner called for police. Investigators obtained security camera video that showed Wilson and her vehicle.

Officers caught up with Wilson about a week later, after she was involved in another violent confrontation, police documents said.

On Thursday night about 11, officers were called to a disturbance in the 3900 block of Metropolitan Avenue, southeast of Fair Park. The victim in that case said she had ended her relationship with a man and had put his clothes in bags on her front porch, the documents said.

Wilson showed up with the man, cursed at the victim and then attacked her with what was believed to be “a razor blade or box cutter type instrument,” the documents said.

The victim “suffered four lacerations to her left upper back and one laceration to the back of her head,” the documents said.

Wilson and the man fled the scene in the same blue Audi seen at the West Village a week earlier. She was stopped and arrested early Friday morning on the Dallas North Tollway near Interstate 635.

During questioning later at Jack Evans Police Headquarters, Wilson admitted to stealing from the Uptown store, but she denied hitting the store owner.

“Wilson stated that the stolen merchandise is located in a storage unit in Dallas, but was unable to give the address and unit number at this time,” the documents said.

Her criminal history includes felony convictions for fraud and credit card abuse, according to records.

Update 4:11 p.m.: Court has ended for the day. Testimony will resume in the morning.

Update 3:27 p.m.: The jury finds Dominique Thornton guilty of three count of aggravated robbery. He faces life sentence and the punishment phase is beginning immediately.

Update 2:33 p.m.: Jurors have sent a note this afternoon asking to listen to a recorded phone call Thornton made to his girlfriend. Judge Hawk is bringing jurors back in the courtroom and asked everyone to leave while jurors listen to the recording.

The call was played Wednesday for jurors.

Thornton is hard to understand as he speaks. When prosecutors played the call in court, a detective testified about what Thornton had said.

Thornton said in a recorded jail phone call that he knew he’d made a mistake when Dallas police found fingerprints connecting him to the robbery of three people along the Katy Trail last year.

“Yeah, I [expletive] up,” Thornton said the recorded call.

Thornton’s fingerprints were recovered from a coin purse belonging to the woman that was found laying next to her purse. The items were discovered by a housekeeper on a patio not far from the Katy Trail.

In the recorded jail call, Thornton told his girlfriend said he did not have a gun.

“On the one they got me on, on that one, I didn’t even have a pistol,” Thornton said on the call, according to Dallas police Detective Scott Hopkins. In court, Hopkins interpreted what was said because Thornton was difficult to understand.

The girlfriend responded: “So you just scared her?”

“Yeah, that’s what I did.”

Original post: 12:26 p.m.: A Dallas County jury is deliberating whether a 23-year-old man is guilty of three aggravated robberies along the Katy Trail in May 2012.

The charges against Dominique Thornton stem from the robbery of three people — a woman, her husband and sister-in-law — as they walked home from a birthday celebration at the Katy Trail Ice House. The woman was pushed by one man while a second man pointed a gun at the sister-in-law.

Thornton’s fingerprints were recovered from a coin purse belonging to the woman that was found laying next to her purse. The items were discovered by a housekeeper on a patio not far from the Katy Trail.

Thornton said in a recorded jail phone call that he knew he’d made a mistake when Dallas police found fingerprints connecting him to the robbery of three people along the Katy Trail last year.

Dominique Thornton

“Yeah, I [expletive] up,” Thornton said in a recorded phone call played for jurors.

In closing arguments, Thornton’s defense attorney Phillip Robertson told jurors the he had no doubts that the trio was robbed but argued that Dallas County prosecutors Jay Worley and Messina Madson did not prove their case.

Robertson said all prosecutors had to sway jurors was emotion. The three robbery victims could not positively identify Thornton as one of the men who robbed them. Although, a man who was robbed along the Katy Trail hours later testified today that Thornton robbed him. That man’s case has not been indicted by a grand jury.

“How many more men like Mr. Thornton will go down … while we kneel before the government,” Robertson said. Robertson said that jurors needed more evidence to convict and not prosecutors’ word that “just because they say it’s so, it’s so.”

Robertson said prosecutors did not prove a gun was used.

But Worley said “pure facts” proved Thornton committed the robbery. The sister-in-law testified that one of the men pointed a gun at her head and shouted to the others that one of the men had a gun.

The woman and husband said they did not see the gun because they were not looking in that direction. The husband was running after the man who stole the purse but stopped when he heard one of the robbers had a gun.

“Only one man in the world has Dominique Thornton’s fingerprints, and he’s sitting right there,” Worley said. “That’s not emotion. That’s a fact.”

If convicted, Thornton faces up to life in prison for aggravated robbery. If a gun was not used, the charge would be robbery, which is only punishable by up to 20 years.

The victims of the robbery are not being identified by The Dallas Morning News because authorities have expressed concern for their safety. Police have not charged a second person in the crimes.

State District Judge Susan Hawk, who is presiding over the trial, has admonished Thornton’s supporters several times about making gestures and comments in court. There is also an allegation that a threat was made Wednesday against a witness who is expected to testify in the punishment phase of the trial if Thornton is convicted.

Thornton was arrested in May 2012 he bragged to friends about the holdups, according to police documents. He was also linked to the robberies by fingerprints lifted from a stolen purse.

Most of the robberies centered around Uptown and Lower Greenville in Dallas.

From Tanya Eiserer’s story last May about Thornton’s arrest:

A 22-year-old man accused in connection with a trio of robberies last weekend on and near the Katy Trail bragged to friends about holding up people, according to police documents released Monday.

Police linked Dominique Thornton to the robberies through fingerprints lifted off of a stolen purse. He remains in the Dallas County jail on bonds totaling $3 million.

Authorities are still investigating whether more than a dozen other robberies since late April, mostly centered around the Uptown and Lower Greenville areas, are linked to the Katy Trail robberies.

The first of the three robberies around the Katy Trail area happened late May 12, when a 25-year-old man was robbed in the 3700 block of Travis Street, between Blackburn Street and Lemmon Avenue.

In the second robbery, a woman, her husband and a third person were walking home from a trail-side bar near Routh Street and Cedar Springs Road in the early morning hours of May 13. According to police documents, Thornton knocked the wife to the ground and grabbed her purse, trying to yank it free. The woman’s husband ran to help her and hit Thornton in the face, the documents state.

At the same time, an unidentified accomplice confronted the third person and pointed a gun at her. Thornton and his accomplice then fled down the Katy Trail with the purse, the documents state.

A few hours later, a 34-year-old man was robbed of his cellphone and cash as he jogged on the trail near Blackburn Street.

On May 15 police announced a $5,000 reward in the case.

Two days later, authorities received a tip through the North Texas Crime Commission that Thornton ”was bragging to friends about robbing a white male and white female on the Katy Trail and that he had stolen their money, credit cards and cellphones,” according to police documents.

On that same day, a housekeeper found a stolen purse belonging to one of the victims in the second robbery on the outside patio of an apartment near the trail. Police matched a fingerprint from the purse to Thornton, the documents state.

A judged signed three arrest warrants in connection with that second holdup forThornton on Friday. He was taken into custody late Saturday in Grand Prairie.

The victim of the third robbery said he’s already jogging again along the trail.

“I don’t feel there is a systemic safety issue with the Katy Trail,” he said. “I believe this was an isolated incident.”

Police say the streets of Dallas are a little safer after a suspected mugger was arrested last weekend as he tried to rob a woman who had just exited the Cityplace DART station.

Rodney Jones, 46, remains in the Dallas County Jail after being booked on two aggravated robbery charges Saturday night.

Authorities say the victim was headed to a McKinney Avenue restaurant to meet family members when she was approached by Jones, who demanded her purse and keys. She ran but didn’t get far.

Shortly afterward police received a 911 call from a witness saying there was a man on top of a woman, beating her in the grassy area near 3600 Oak Grove Road.

“She is going to die with me,” he told witnesses who tried to help the victim, according to police records.

When Officers Steven Castillo and Jon Matthew Martinez arrived on the scene, they saw Jones choking a woman. Police say Jones saw the two officers but continued to choke the victim.

“I’m gonna kill her!” he told police, allegedly trying to break the woman’s neck. “You are going to have to kill me!”

Castillo then shot Jones with a Taser, stopping the attack.

Upon his arrest, investigators realized this was Jones’ second attempted robbery of the night. Just 20 minutes earlier, police say, he placed a knife against another woman’s throat and demanded property from her as she was walking home from a yoga class in Uptown.

Another officer heard the call, and realized that Jones matched the description of the suspect in that crime as well.

Jones has a history of burglary and robbery charges dating back to 1984, according to Dallas County records.

Another officer arrived on scene and sprayed Boothe with pepper spray to help his fellow officer out. As is often the case, that apparently worked and Boothe was taken into custody without further incident, police said.

Zaudke was treated at the scene for minor injuries. Boothe was also treated for the spray.

The Dallas man “continued to be resistant and combative during transport and in booking process,” the documents said.

Boothe faces a felony charge of assault of a public servant. He remains in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, where his bail is set at $10,000.

A Baltimore man has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief, trespassing and resisting arrest after getting into a scuffle with police in the lobby of the Rosewood Mansion hotel in Uptown Dallas.

Jack Schwebel, 41, was evicted from the hotel Thursday for smoking in a nonsmoking room, according to police records. Escorted outside, Schwebel refused to leave the property yelling, “This is America and I don’t have to cooperate,” police say.

Schwebel, who was wearing jeans and a black jacket with no undershirt, ran back into the lobby of the hotel and began charging towards to front desk clerk, according to police reports.

Police shot Schwebel with a Taser, but he continued to charge the front desk breaking a lamp and destroying a monitor and keyboard. Police then shot Schwebel with pepper spray in the face, but it was ineffective and the man began charging the police officer.

Police say he was eventually taken down with a “balanced displacement technique” and had to be kneed and punched in the back to finally be handcuffed.

Even after that, Schwebel continued to try to evade police before finally being placed in a squad car. In the squad car he reportedly hit his head against the metal cage multiple times.

Schwebel was transported to the Dallas County Jail where he had to be forcefully restrained to a chair because of his aggression. He is being held on $2,500 bail.